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In addition to its retail formats, the company owns and operates several specialty services. This includes 56 Shoppers Home Health Care stores (renamed to "Wellwise by Shoppers Drug Mart"), which sell and service assisted-living devices, home-care products, and mobility and medical equipment; Shoppers Drug Mart Specialty Health Network, a provider of specialty drug distribution, pharmacy and ...
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Shoppers Drug Mart. On July 15, 2013, Loblaw announced that it would acquire Canada's largest pharmacy chain, Shoppers Drug Mart (branded "Pharmaprix" in the Province of Quebec), for CA$12.4 billion in a cash and stock deal. Galen G. Weston indicated the possibility for store brands from the two chains to appear in each other's stores following ...
The drug store was different from pharmacies in the past in that it was open on the Jewish Sabbath (Saturday), and sold products that were not drugs. Two years later, they opened a second pharmacy in Jerusalem ; 1985 saw the opening of a Super-Pharm branch in the Ayalon shopping mall , which was their first location in a shopping mall .
The company became incorporated in 1973 under the name Services Farmico, enticed by the five branches already set up in Montreal. The name was changed 13 years later to its current name, the Jean Coutu Group (PJC) Inc., and was put on the stock exchange. In 1982 it entered the New Brunswick market and then the Ontario market in 1983.
But Walmart is now attracting higher-income shoppers through its e-commerce platform. That division this year crossed $100 billion in annual sales and expanded at a healthy 27% rate this past quarter.
Sometimes unconventional stock photos were used to represent a product's unique nature. A fierce-looking Japanese Kabuki actor in heavy theatrical make-up became the image for PC's Memories of Kobe line; and the penetrating eyes of a veiled woman, from a fashion shoot, became that of PC Memories of Ancient Damascus Pomegranate Sauce.
George Weston Limited, often referred to as Weston or Weston's, is a Canadian holding company.Founded by George Weston in 1882, the company today consists of the Choice Properties real estate investment trust and Loblaw Companies Limited, Canada's largest supermarket retailer, in which it maintains a controlling interest.